Projects
In Search of the Subaltern Voice: A Conflict History of Subaltern Experiences and Subjectivity in Rural Guatemala KU Leuven
Environmental and Rural History of Urbanised Societies (Sabbatical) University of Antwerp
Tenure track appointment in Rural History of pre-industrial Europe Ghent University
Tenure track appointment in Rural History of pre-industrial Europe (Thijs Lambrecht)
Comparative rural history of the North Sea Ghent University
This project involves fundamental research funded by the Research Foundation Flanders. The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel.
An Archaeometric Study of Soil and Glass from the High Medieval Castle of Cucagna, Northern Italy. Interdisciplinary interpretations regarding glass technology, geochemistry of the soil burial environment, conservation and cultural history KU Leuven
This research is based on archaeological glass with corresponding soil samples, excavated on the site of the high medieval castle Cucagna in Friuli/Northern Italy. The glass fragments can be dated between the 13th and the 15th century AD.
The core hypothesis of this work is that the glass used at Cucagna Castle were brought in from the Northern Italian glass factories under Venetian patronage, as the impressive glass qualities ...
More-than-Human Histories of Rural Landscapes in the Andes, 19th-20th century Ghent University
Human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. Based on two case studies in indigenous communities of the Bolivian-Chilean highlands, the HI-LANDeS project, which is funded under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, aims primarily to develop a more-than-human approach to investigate the role of communal practices and knowledge production around water and land in the transformation and ...
Rethinking the impact of economic growth: A comparative study of rural market and subaltern economies in early modern Italy (1650-1800) KU Leuven
This project aims to test whether economic growth had a positive influence on prosperity levels in the past. Growth has long been seen as a precondition for high prosperity. However, through the use of GNP figures and real wages, indicators that only record commercial transactions, commercialized companies with economic growth will automatically emerge as more prosperous. This project will develop a new multidimensional prosperity index, to ...
The impact of economic growth revisited: Comparing rural market and subaltern economies in the premodern Low Countries (1650-1800) KU Leuven
Early medieval farming communities in northern Francia. Rural settlement, domestic space and material culture from Clovis to the Counts of Flanders. Ghent University
The central objective of the research is to study the daily life, culture and socio-economy of the farming communities living in northern Francia during the Early Middle Ages (ca. AD 450 – ca. AD 1000). This will be tackled using a varied set of archaeological, historical and ecological sources, set in a wider comparative framework. The research will focus on settlement forms, house-building traditions, local domestic ceramics and the ...